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2nd United States Infantry Regiment (Civil War)
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Active
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Engagements First Battle of Bull Run
Peninsular Campaign
Second Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Fredericksburg
Battle of Chancellorsville
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of the Wilderness
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Battle of Cold Harbor
Siege of Petersburg

The 2nd United States Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service[]

Total strength and casualties[]

The regiment suffered 8 officers and 88 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 58 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 155 fatalities.[1]

Commanders[]

  • Colonel

See also[]

  • List of United States Regular Army Civil War Units

Notes[]

  1. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unrginf1.htm#2ndinf The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.

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